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The Obama administration has released
one of al Qa’seda most skilled explosives experts, a man personally
praised by Osama bin Laden and who created the shoe-bomb design that was
used
unsuccessfully to bring down an airliner in 2001.
The
Pentagon said Thursday that Egyptian Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed al Sawah, who
may have known of the original Sept. 11 plot, was transferred to the
government of Bosnia. Al Sawah fought with the Bosnian army in the early
1990s and eventually made his way to Afghanistan in 2000.
Like
other members of al Qaeda, al Sawah began his terrorism career as a
member of the secretive Muslim Brotherhood, which is present in the U.S.
Al
Sawah’s Guantanamo file reveals a number of chronic medical problems in
2008, when a secret profile was created by Task Force Guantanamo. Now
58, he was listed as “morbidly obese,” and at the time suffered from
diabetes, fatty liver disease and chronic pain from spinal cord
compression. Prison doctors urged him to get more exercise.
In
his terrorism career, he was close to bin Laden and taught classes in
explosives at the al Qaeda leader’s Tarnak Farms training camp.
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